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by rileyphone 752 days ago
Unary operators are still operators. The integer parsing rules are probably different. In Lisp, -x would be a symbol, and the proper analog to -123 would be (- x) eg.
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I think we're in agreement. `-` and `.` are both operators and the language and user have to understand the relative precedence of them.